Bulgaria's Central Election Commission (CEC) declared election day over at 9pm in the vote for the country's seventh president, commission chairman Georgi Horozov said during an online broadcast of its session. Bulgarians voted for a president and a vice president.

Turnout across the country at 4pm was 16.04%, CEC spokeswoman Stoyanka Balova said earlier today. At the same hour in the 2021 presidential election, it was 24.12%.

Background: Bulgarians abroad began voting for president, first in Auckland

The CEC will announce the results and the names of the winning pair, if there is one, on 27 October. If no pair is elected, the two with the most votes will go to a runoff on 1 November 2026.